Yeah, anyone who says that Haruka and Michiru are going to get boyfriends in Crystal is a stupid idiot. Yes the Sen/Shi thing was a bit heteronormative, but to take out such a beloved pairing would win Toei no fans, and it would probably piss off Naoko Takeuchi, too. There are definitely some things I'm worried about in the upcoming seasons of Crystal, but Toei censoring Haruka/Michiru is not one of them.

All censorship on homosexual couples were done by DIC and Cloverway. Toei never did anything. In fact they created the ZoisitexKunzite pair and made Fish Eye homosexual. In the manga Fish Eye didn't have a character. He was just there to be killed.

Viz is keeping the 90's anime uncut. So there's no censorship on the homosexual characters. They are also dubbing Crystal so Haruka and Michiru will be fine.

I can see people being upset with Haruka and Michiru. Their manga counterparts are quite different from their 90's counterparts. But Toei won't make them "cousin" or whatever.

So, this was on Tumblr! It was apparently released in a magazine in Japan -- our first look at Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. This season is going to have a new art director; I think it looks pretty nice, honestly.

I hear that the story director is going to be different, too. I have hope that this season will be better than the previous two.

I would watch Cystal even if it was drawn in stick figures.The animation quality is the same as before, they only changed the art style which is more simplified, took the elegance and lips from the previous two and that's that.

Yeah, that ending is about as subtle as a Mack truck. But it is nice to see some real budget going into Crystal; perhaps the show will not have those lapses of editing that happened with the previous installment.

That point when you realize you are the weird friend people talk about